Dougherty outlaws: Brother joins siblings, admits to bank robbery

MACON, Ga. (AP) — A Florida man pleaded guilty Friday to robbing a south Georgia bank and firing an assault rifle into the ceiling during a 2011 crime spree with his brother and sister than began with a Florida police chase and ended in a shootout in Colorado.

Dylan Dougherty Stanley, 27, almost derailed the plea deal when he told a U.S. District Court judge he disagreed with one part of prosecutors' narrative of the crime — that all three siblings threatened bank employees in Valdosta during the robbery on Aug. 2, 2011.

"I never threatened anybody," Stanley of Zephyrhills, north of Tampa, said after telling the judge that prosecutors' version of the crime was "99.9 percent" correct. "Everything else was exact and that does not negate the fact that I was in the bank with a firearm."

Judge Hugh Lawson made prosecutors and defense attorneys amend the paperwork before allowing Stanley to enter his plea.